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Identifier: antiquitiesofher00baia (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of Herculaneum
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764 Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825 Lettice, John, 1737-1832 Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780 Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810 Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795 Accademia ercolanese di archeologia (Naples, Italy)
Subjects: Art, Roman
Publisher: London : Printed for S. Leacroft ...
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PLATE XXXIII. 139 The other picture exhibits three boys diverting themfelves ata play commonly called hide and feek (8). The attitudes o£thefe three little figures are all elegant and expreflive (9). The Circenfian games being in the greareft efteen^ boys were freely accuftom-ed by their fathers to this play. See Rhodiginus, left, ant. lib. xviii. cap,, xxvhPhotius in No?nocanone, tit. xiii. c. xxix. reckons among prohibited games ittttikccfyjXivot, Equejlres ligneos, as they are called in /. iii. cap. de Aleatoribus. Balfamonyin his comment upon this paffage of Photius-, fays, that a doubt has arifen about thisplay called ^vXtvov itvkckov, and fome are of opinion that it was a game which**■ ufed to be played at by boys, who in driving the chariot made ufe of men inftead of horfes. But he goes on to fay, that it was- fuppofed by others to be anotherfort of play. Pollux, x. fegm. 168. fpeaks of a carriage (xpoifys, k^u^iov) withwhich children ufed to play and divert themfelves. (8)

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